Bret McCormick established himself early on with his 1986
Super 8mm video toothy tentacled bloodbath The Abomination as a SOV
(shot-on-video) force to be reckoned with.
On a shoestring, he crafted a prosthetic effects puppetry gross out with
a scale and gruesome factor rarely reached by more fully fledged studio
productions. Little wonder newly
emerging boutique label Visual Vengeance in conjunction with MVD and Wild Eye
Releasing took a shine to Bret McCormick who generously participated in the
creation of forthcoming deluxe blu-ray releases of The Abomination and
his 1998 erotic sci-fi/action/horror romp Repligator. A film that doesn’t quite ascend to the nutty
heights of his debut but still is made in jest not dissimilar from 1970s Roger
Corman productions ala Death Race 2000 or particularly Forbidden
World, think of this as a weird crossbreed between Andy Sidaris and Frank Henenlotter
on videotape.
--Andrew Kotwicki